I just saw defective yeti's post about the "ashtray mouth" campaign our tax dollars are supporting and was immediately struck by how awesome the picture he linked to is. I decided that I'd go ahead and quickly clean all the branding and text off the image so that creative individuals might put it to better use.

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What that better use might be is anyone's guess, but I look forward to seeing what kinds of new captions people might put on it.

I'm a bit late on this, but I enjoyed participating in the little meme game Marcus invented.

Here's my entry:

To see everyone else's, head on over to his livejournal. There's some really good stuff in there.

I recently learned that my great great great grandfather was a travelling snake-oil miracle-cure potion salesman who had some mild success in his declining years. It seems that people trust you more when your hair and beard are mottled with white. In any case, I was going through some of his things in this old steamer trunk that I was sent after he passed away and discovered a poster for one of his most successful campaigns. I hope you don't mind me sharing it with you, but please check out the high resolution version by clicking on it as I he spent alot of time on it.

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Cinematical is having a Photoshop contest to 'help pick a new James Bond'. Since Quentin Tarantino came up with the idea of remaking Casino Royale in the first place, the natural pick is a Tarantino star. Just a minor change to the title is necessary.